LeGrand Center sign too bright

Published: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 at 10:31 AM.

As taxpaying, landowning, lifelong city residents we request that the electronic sign outside the Legrand Center on Marion Street be deemed a nuisance and dimmed or turned off after dusk. We have made numerous requests to the Legrand Center with no reply.

With the lighting of this sign the Legrand Center has taken away our rights as citizens of this city to; sleep in darkened bedrooms, enjoy nights on the lawn, safely enter and exit our driveways at night, and retain our property values.

The constant blue pulsating light during the dark hours penetrates all window coverings, splashes our lawn and houses, forces us to shield our eyes when going out at night to walk our dogs, makes it extremely dangerous to judge oncoming traffic. Imagine being surrounded by police car blue lights every night, all night long.

As a resident and a taxpayer I am proud to have a successful college and a beautiful new conference center in our town. But if allowed to remain this sign represents a serious abuse of political and bureaucratic power. I see no other business in town that has been afforded the right to construct such a display not 100 feet from dwellings.

The same laws that apply to a residential zone that prohibit me from doing some things I would like to do are the same laws that should prohibit these types of offenses from others. By our own laws and guidelines this sign is a nuisance.

As taxpaying, landowning, lifelong city residents we request that the electronic sign outside the Legrand Center on Marion Street be deemed a nuisance and dimmed or turned off after dusk. We have made numerous requests to the Legrand Center with no reply.

With the lighting of this sign the Legrand Center has taken away our rights as citizens of this city to; sleep in darkened bedrooms, enjoy nights on the lawn, safely enter and exit our driveways at night, and retain our property values.

The constant blue pulsating light during the dark hours penetrates all window coverings, splashes our lawn and houses, forces us to shield our eyes when going out at night to walk our dogs, makes it extremely dangerous to judge oncoming traffic. Imagine being surrounded by police car blue lights every night, all night long.

As a resident and a taxpayer I am proud to have a successful college and a beautiful new conference center in our town. But if allowed to remain this sign represents a serious abuse of political and bureaucratic power. I see no other business in town that has been afforded the right to construct such a display not 100 feet from dwellings.

The same laws that apply to a residential zone that prohibit me from doing some things I would like to do are the same laws that should prohibit these types of offenses from others. By our own laws and guidelines this sign is a nuisance.